The mpfr functions have been removed from the public GMP 4.0 release. This was made since paperwork was not ready in time for the release. The mpfr developers also wanted to address some known issues, before a new mpfr is released with GMP. While we could have kept the old mpfr code that was included with GMP 3, the mpfr developers felt that that code is obsolete. If you need to use the mpfr functions now, please see: . We expect that the next GMP release (4.1) or a possible patch release (4.0.1) will again include mpfr.